Rotten
If he'd followed through, Mike Nichols might have made a brilliant picture -- seems he just couldn't bear to look a gift wolf in the mouth.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Overview
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
Director and cast
- Mike Nichols Director
- Jack Nicholson as Will Randall
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Laura Alden
- James Spader as Stewart Swinton
- Kate Nelligan as Charlotte Randall
- Richard Jenkins as Detective Carl Bridger
- Christopher Plummer as Raymond Alden
- Eileen Atkins as Mary
- David Hyde Pierce as Roy
- Om Puri Cast
- Ron Rifkin Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Nichols has crafted a rapturous romantic thriller with a darkly comic subtext about what kills human values.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
Nichols has allowed Wolf to evolve from a well-mounted, supernatural drama to goofy camp.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
A sometimes shaky, always enchanting Beauty and the Beast story for grown-ups that is the very essence of smart fun -- droll, sophisticated and surprisingly, pleasingly light.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
An effective attempt to place a werewolf story in an incongruous setting, with the closely observed details of that setting used to make the story seem more believable.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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